Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Happy wife, happy life.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.

If you talked to others the way you talk to yourself, would you have any friends?

I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing.